Always a Bridegroom: The Maryland Bridegrooms Blog

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Always a Bridegroom: The Maryland Bridegrooms Blog

Hello everyone and welcome.

I have been contemplating starting a blog dedicated to the Maryland Bridegrooms ever since the AFBL made it official that the California Golden Eagles were indeed going to make Baltimore their new home.

In some ways, I was very excited. In other ways, we were getting one of the most consistently poor clubs in the AFBL?s early history so I was a little wary. As time moved on and the 2017 season moved from Spring Training into meaningful games, I waited to see if other blogs would start up to give news on the club. I waited to see if there would be any official communications from the club itself.

Nothing.

Within hours of the final game as the Golden Eagles in Riverside, California, virtually all California Golden Eagles blogs stopped their activity or went into serious blog fade, and for good reason. Not only was the club going to get the worst nickname in the league ? the Bridegrooms -, they announced they were going to be playing in the worst-named ballpark in the league after signing a deal with Baltimore?s G & B & X & T & E Bank.

In four forgettable years in California, the club posted a record of 280-368, with at least 94 losses in each of the final three seasons.   

At least the club had Kevin Reynolds. This was a guy that I would pay to see pitch.

And the club had actually drafted a stud bat in catcher Willie Patton. His arrival at the club with the #2 overall pick in the 2015 Amateur Draft forced the then-Golden Eagles to move two-time AFBL Frontier League Best Defender at Catcher Mike Brown to first base in 2016 in order to keep Brown?s bat in the lineup while outright giving the full-time catching job to Patton.

The club started out the 2017 season in their new home in the Patriot League South Division and posted a 9-15 record in April, but won in their first ever official game as the Maryland Bridegrooms with a 3-2 victory over the North Carolina Aviators at Bojangles Stadium, and won their first ever home game at G & B & X & T & E Bank Park in a 12-4 drubbing of the New York Brewers where third base prospect Jose Ibarra hit two home runs and showed some of his big-power potential.

The 'Grooms surprised everyone by going 15-14 in May, but as June went on and May looked more like an aberration than reality, the club raised the white flag on the season and ended years of speculation by trading Kevin Reynolds to the Colorado Bears for draft picks and two young pitchers.

Reynolds, who was 8-3 with a 2.20 ERA (178 ERA+), 0.98 WHIP, and 83 strikeouts in 13 starts for Maryland, ended up being the winning pitcher for Colorado as they clinched the Federation Cup in six games against the West Virginia Hollers, and tied Jorge Sepulveda?s regular-season record of 23 wins after winning 15 games for Colorado after the trade.

The fact that Maryland ended the 2017 season with the same 64-98 record as they did in 2016 means that the trade was probably a good thing for the overall development of the club. When the new ownership group assumed control in 2014, the organization had the worst minor league system in the AFBL. Four years later, the club is #7 overall at the last published rankings. This is one area where the club has made consistent improvement.

The club is also hitting a lot more home runs. After traditionally being at or near the bottom of the league in terms of team power, Maryland finished 2017 third in the Patriot League with 167 team home runs. Part of that uptick was switching to the Patriot League. Part of it was the players.

Patton hit 38 home runs in 2017, breaking Brown?s team record of 29 which stood since the 2013 Inaugural Season. 22-year old outfielder Liam Meadows hit 26 home runs in 2017, his second straight year of 20+ homers. Brown hit 21, and Ibarra hit 19 in 387 at-bats. The club also has a number of young power bats ready to compete for a job in 2018, including outfielder Orlando Gandarilla, first baseman Dana Little and third baseman Al Jones.

In my next post I?ll look at the breakout seasons for Patton and Ibarra, and some of the organization?s top prospects.

[BaseballAddict32]

"Always a Bridegroom", like that. Good luck.

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Always a Bridegroom #2: Trades!

This post was supposed to be about the breakout 2017 seasons for Willie Patton and Jose Ibarra, but with two significant trades in the lead-up to the 2018 season, the Maryland Bridegrooms seem to be saying that this year might be a transitional year.

Transition to what you might ask? That's the big question.

The club came into 2018 looking to get some consistency in the middle infield, and upgrade the defense in the process. They did this by trading two very promising young power bats who are likely to go on and have very solid careers.

First, back in November, the club sent 27-year old 3B Al Jones (4th round pick, 52nd overall, 2016 Amateur Draft) to the New York Twin Towers for 31-year old 2B Ben Crossin and 22-year old minor league outfielder Firdus Ovchiyan. Crossin, who has primarily played shortstop the last five years in NY, will be returning to his natural second base in Maryland and should be the sort of consistent, everyday performer that the club has lacked at second since 38-year old Jorge Perez began having injury troubles in 2015. The fact that the Bridegrooms already have 25-year old Jose Ibarra, and drafted 23-year old 3B Jose Ortiz with their first pick (4th overall) in the 2018 Amateur Draft, made Jones an expendable option even if the price was steep.

The second big trade was concluded during this year's Spring Training, and saw touted 23-year old 1B prospect Dana Little sent to the Idaho Steelheads for 23-year old shortstop Manny Rosario and 22-year old lefty reliever Ruben Perez. Little, the organization's top pick (9th overall) in the 2013 Amateur Draft, has consistently been rated among the AFBL's top prospects but for some reason the Maryland organization has never seen him as a long-term fit. Maybe that's one of the reasons why Maryland consistently finishes in last place. But, with far too much time invested in moving 32-year old Mike Brown from catcher to first base, Little wasn't going to get to start for a few more years anyway. And with a comparable bat in the system in the form of 21-year old Jorge Medina, Little's fate was sealed.

It's hard to imagine all of the home runs that will be lost with the exports of Jones and Little.

But to be honest, a new middle infield combination of Crossin and Rosario could do wonders for the club in 2018. The fact that Jones and Little never even played for the Bridegrooms at the Major League level helps to make the trades a little more palatable. Even though they're going to go on and have good, long careers elsewhere, they weren't going to get a lot of playing time and returned players who are going to start for Maryland in 2018. 

Expectations for Crossin and Rosario are to play above-average defense, and just about any positive contribution with the bat will be a welcomed extra. If Perez doesn't make the Bridegrooms' bullpen out of Spring Training, he will be one of the very first call ups as Maryland currently only has one lefty on the active roster.

This year, for the first time in the club's history, Maryland addressed what they identified during the winter as glaring needs going into a new season. In one full calendar year in Maryland, the organization has made more trades (three) than they did in four years in California (two).

Next post about Patton, Ibarra, and the 2018 outlook.

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"Always a Bridegroom", like that. Good luck.

Thanks, by the way! I had the idea to do a "fan's-view" blog for a while so hopefully I can dig into it regularly. Initially I wanted to have two fans as the "authors" of the blog - one a complete homer who just oozes the company line, and one a complete critic of anything the club does or doesn't do - and might eventually go down that route if time allows. Might have to start another thread to do more official stats and records updates and such.   

EDIT: apologies if I artificially inflate my own "views." I just like to go back and fix any errors and make sure the formatting is good with fresh eyes. 

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Always a Bridegroom #3: Patton, Ibarra

It?s shocking and sad when you lead with the fact that the Maryland Bridegrooms? 2017 AFBL campaign actually had some bright spots. In some ways, it says something (hopefully) positive for the progress and long-term outlook of the team. In recent years, the club?s biggest feat by the end of the season would be looking at how well Kevin Reynolds had pitched with such terrible support around him.

But no more!

Maryland has been methodically building their farm system for the last four years, and have climbed from worst in the AFBL to third best overall as of the latest BNN ?Annual Top Systems? list.   


Willie Patton

The biggest bright spot of the 2017 season was undoubtedly the continuing development of 27-year old catcher Willie Patton in his second season of professional baseball. Patton, one of those rare talents who never spent a single day in the minors, built on his solid rookie year of 2016 to become a Patriot League All-Star and smash numerous single-season club records along the way in 2017.

Patton posted a .291/.355/.543 slash line in 2017, with an .899 OPS (147 OPS+), 24 doubles, 38 home runs, 96 RBI, 94 runs scored and 5.4 WAR. Patton, the #2 overall pick in the first round of the 2015 AFBL Amateur Draft, is now the mainstay #3 hitter in the lineup and looks set to hold onto that position for years to come.

Patton's season set new single-season California/Maryland records for slugging percentage (.543), OPS (.899), VORP (55.2), total bases (302), home runs (38), and RBI (96). He also cut down his strikeouts from an ugly 190 in 2016, to 146 and improved the number of times he walked from 39 to 51 in 2017. Patton had 564 at-bats in 2016 and 556 in 2017.


Jose Ibarra

25-year old third baseman Jose Ibarra was the seventh overall pick in the first round of the 2014 AFBL Amateur Draft. He spent 2015 between AA and AAA, hitting well and for power at both levels. In 2016 as a 23-year old he spent the majority of the year at AAA, aside from a forgettable 17 at-bat stint  for the then-Golden Eagles where he managed just one hit and struck out eight times.

In 2017 he spent the entire season with the Bridegrooms and because of his tremendous versatility played games at second base, third base and shortstop, in addition to left and right field. He also spent a month on the DL with the dreaded oblique strain that seems to be one of numerous recurring curses on the organization. Ibarra is going to be the everyday third baseman for Maryland in 2018, no more roaming positions.

Oddly enough, Ibarra finished his 2015 season at AAA with a .276 batting average, finished 2016 at AAA with a .276 batting average, and finished 2017 with Maryland with a .276 batting average.  Last year he went .276/.302/.478, with a .780 OPS (114 OPS+), 19 home runs, 43 RBI, 51 runs scored and 1.6 WAR.

With Patton and Ibarra hitting #3 and #4 in the everyday lineup, Maryland has a potent power combination at the heart of their lineup that they can build around for the future. And the club can move 33-year old first baseman Mike Brown down to #5 where there will be less pressure and where he is probably better suited at this point in his career.   
 

 

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Always a Bridegroom #4: More of the Same

Despite all of the optimistic talk in the off-season, and trades for defensive role players to solidify the middle infield, it's been more of the same for the Maryland Bridegrooms as the 2018 AFBL season has rolled on into summer.

A 28-44 record through mid-June is about on par with realistic expectations if we're being honest with ourselves, with the bats producing some occasional thunder and little else and the pitching - aside from Artie Gregory who is out of his mind this year - being consistently poor all around and ranking near the bottom of the Patriot League in most categories.

31-year old 2B Ben Crossin, who was brought in from New York this off-season to be the everyday second baseman, went onto the Disabled List for a month at the beginning of the year with the dreaded Maryland strained oblique. Reliever Lyndon Shortt was on the DL from mid-March through nearly the end of May with biceps tendinitis. 27-year old starting pitcher Sonny York was demoted to AAA, and so was the man who replaced him in the rotation, 39-year old veteran Don Miller.

But, there has been some development from a few of the young players who hope to turn the Bridegrooms' fortunes around in the next few years.

Despite the 1-10 record, 23-year old starter and top prospect Tim Weaver isn't having the worst rookie season with a 4.28 ERA and 1.3 WAR, but word around the organization is that he will spend a couple of months back at AAA to get some confidence back.

In his first full season with Maryland, 22-year old SP Shawn Curran is an encouraging 3-3 with a 3.36 ERA, 1.38 WHIP and 1.6 WAR in 14 starts. Curran, the 768th overall pick in the AFBL Inaugural Draft by the Oregon Explorers, came to Maryland in the Alex McCullagh trade in the spring of 2015 and in many ways his acquisition was seen as the first big move towards rebuilding the club. He throws a heavy sinkerball in the low-to-mid 90s which induces a ton of ground balls.

24-year old Rod Pritchard, a starting pitcher who came to Maryland last season in the Kevin Reynolds trade, is a surprising 5-4 with a 3.31 ERA and 1.3 WAR and is holding down a spot in the rotation.

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Always a Bridegroom #5: Bob Roberts Demoted


Bob Roberts

It takes a lot for this blog to be shaken from its blog fade and realize there's still an AFBL franchise in Maryland. But every once in a while there's some news that just can't be ignored.

Despite the promising signs shown by some of the Bridegrooms' younger players like third baseman Jose Ibarra and starting pitcher Tim Weaver, Maryland has remained loyal to a few players from the original California Golden Eagles roster. These sentimental attachments have, more often than not, been detrimental to the club.

So it was interesting to see that the team demoted 37-year old outfielder/third baseman Bob Roberts to AAA Annapolis Destroyers. Roberts, is 7th all-time in the AFBL in stolen bases (250) and 27th all-time in hits (957). Roberts also holds 18 career and single-season Maryland records including career batting average (.280).

But in 48 games this season, Roberts was hitting .190/.208/.214, striking out 33 times and walking only 3 times in 126 at-bats. He scored just 6 runs, knocked in 9, and had 1 stolen base. This will be the first time in his career that Roberts will spend any time in the minor leagues. Roberts will bat second and play third base for Annapolis.

It's not clear if this is going to be a permanent move or just designed to try and get Roberts' bat going again before coming back up to the big club. According to sources, Roberts was angry about the demotion and went on a rant in the clubhouse about a lack of loyalty and respect from the organization. What Roberts fails to realize, though, is that it's nearing the end of June. It's not like the club made a quick decision in April or May.

It remains to be seen what sort of role, if any, Roberts will play going forward for Maryland, or if he'll hang it up and retire at the end of the season.

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Always a Bridegroom #6: 2019 Season Review

The club with the worst team nickname in the AFBL finished the 2019 season with a 65-97 record, bad enough for 4th place in the Patriot League South, finishing 16 games ahead of last-place Georgia Titans. The Bridegrooms have an average record of 68-94 in their first seven years of existence, and their 655 losses places them third in league history behind the Iowa Corncobs (715) and the New York Twin Towers (684). The 2020 season will be the fourth year of the franchise calling Maryland ?home,? which means that at the end of the year the club will have been in Baltimore about as long as they were in California.

And yet the club?s core identity as "lovable losers" is still the same or, likely, worse because of the nickname.

Sentiment from opposing fans is more along the lines of pity than anything else when they come to G & B & X & T & E Bank Park.

"I don't like to cheer too loudly for my club when I'm here," said a North Carolina Aviators fan who wished to only be known as "Tom" and who was visiting Maryland to see his club sweep the 'Grooms back in May. "I mean, we shut them out twice in three games. You kind of feel embarrassed rooting against them."

A couple of Maryland supporters groups have petitioned the club about changing the team nickname. ?Maryland Panic? seems to be one of the front-running names out there. Other names that have been bandied about with varying degrees of seriousness include: Monsters, Riders, Rollers, Bacon Jackals, Grinders and Horde. We?ll see if any of these will come up for legitimate consideration during the 2020 season as the club itself says they would consider putting it to a fan vote.

But back to 2019, it was a record-setting year for 27-year old 3B Jose Ibarra, who set new Maryland single-season records for home runs (43) and RBI (106), becoming the first player in franchise history to hit over 40 home runs and the first player to ever top 100 RBI. Ibarra could have had even better numbers if a calf strain didn?t knock him out for several weeks at the end of August and beginning of September. 


Jose Ibarra

2019 was a big step in Ibarra?s development as he improved to .264/.303/.524 with 43 HR and 106 RBI in 561 at-bats compared to .239/.288/.406 with 24 HR and 65 RBI in 564 at-bats in 2018. A number of Ibarra?s teammates commented down the stretch that it was a ?joke? that the man who led the Patriot League in home runs (and tied the near-legendary P.J. Foley for the overall AFBL lead) in 2019 wasn?t an All Star. 

2019 was supposed to be ?next steps forward? for young starting pitchers Tim Weaver and Shawn Curran, with Rod Pritchard expected to build on his solid 2018 season. But it didn?t quite work out that way.

24-year old Curran, was 10-7 with a 3.63 ERA (108 ERA+) in 2018 and 3-0 in Spring Training 2019 as expectations were building for Curran to be part of a strong one-two punch at the top of the rotation with Weaver.  But Curran didn?t look like himself as the season started, getting hit hard and often and only making it longer than 5.1 innings pitched once in his first 6 starts. In mid-June the problem became clear, Curran had a bum elbow and tests revealed a torn ligament that sent him to the sidelines for at least a calendar year.

The injury to Curran has eerie similarities to that of 29-year old Sonny York back at the end of the 2014 season. After being drafted in the 16th round of the AFBL Inaugural Draft, the then 23-year old York put together a promising 11-8 campaign in 2014, with a 3.78 ERA (105 ERA+) in 176 innings pitched before being lost for all of 2015 and a portion of 2016 with a torn flexor tendon in his elbow. York has been back but showing none of the promise he exhibited early in his career, posting a 5-14 record with 4.50 ERA in 2017, 1-6 with a 5.34 ERA in 2018 (after spending most of the year at AAA), and 7-16 with a 5.52 ERA and 1.50 WHIP in 2019.


Shawn Curran

Curran finished his abbreviated 2019 season at 2-5, 5.08 ERA (82 ERA+), 1.56 WHIP, with 38 earned runs allowed in 67.1 innings and 13 starts, and everyone holds their breath that the young man can come back and realize his potential.     
 
25-year old Rod Pritchard had an unremarkable season, going 7-12 with a 4.41 ERA (94 ERA+) and was relegated to the bullpen at the end of the season both to save innings in his arm and to audition others for his spot in the rotation. Pritchard, interestingly, took home the 2019 Best Fielder Award in the Patriot League at the pitcher position. Pritchard didn?t commit an error in 140.2 innings played, recording a clean 42 total chances with 12 put outs and 30 assists.

Tim Weaver, in his second full year at the AFBL-level, went 9-10 with a 4.15 ERA (100 ERA+), 1.25 WHIP, and 163 strikeouts against just 35 walks in 182 innings pitched. In a statement about how good Weaver is and how historically poor Maryland has been, Weaver?s 17 career wins place him 11th all-time in franchise history in that category.

32-year old Esteban Osorid led the starting rotation in wins in 2019, going 10-11 with a 4.22 ERA (99 ERA+) and 3.7 WAR. 31-year old closer Artie Gregory, who is 8th all-time in AFBL history in saves with 189, had a solid season with a 4-6 record, 2.60 ERA (160 ERA+), 33 saves (4 blown), 1.24 WHIP, 1.8 WAR and 84 strikeouts in 83 innings pitched. 23-year old Enrico Leon was the star of the bullpen in 2019, posting a 3-0 record and 1.97 ERA (212 ERA+), 0.99 WHIP, and 57 strikeouts against just 14 walks in 68.2 innings. Leon, like Ibarra, felt like he was snubbed for the All Star team.

29-year old catcher Willie Patton was again a mainstay in the heart of the Maryland lineup, going .284/.352/.531, .883 OPS (138 OPS+), 35 home runs, 89 RBI and 4.5 WAR.  Time is running out for the star catcher to be part of anything meaningful in Maryland and he may be a huge trading chip in the off-season.


Manny Rosario

25-year old SS Manny Rosario showed some signs of improvement as the regular shortstop, raising his batting average and OBP slightly in 2019 from 2018. Rosario, who last season put together an (at-the-time) AFBL record 30-game hitting streak, was also excellent in the field at shortstop, committing just 3 errors in 633.1 innings, completing 61 doubleplays and showing range factor of 4.73 (+6.5 ZR).

27-year old Jose Santana broke through with the big club in 2019 after being a 4th round pick in the 2013 Amateur Draft. Santana spent 5 full seasons in the minors before making the big club out of Spring Training this year as an outfielder/utility man. While he spent most of his time between center and right field, Santana also played left field, shortstop and second base in 2019. Santana, blessed with a very good arm, had a total of 11 outfield assists on the season (6 in RF, 3 in CF, 2 in LF).

[mstreeter06]

Awesome stuff! Love the fan vote for a potential nickname change.

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The voting is now open as to a possible Maryland Bridegrooms team nickname change!

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"Grinders" are leading here in the hunt for a new nickname by a vote.

"Bacon Jackals" has 5 votes on the OOTP forums to lead the way, followed by 4 for "Monsters" and 3 for "Bridegrooms."

[mstreeter06]

I'm curious to know what a Bacon Jackal is 

[Steve Wunda]

I'm curious to know what a Bacon Jackal is 

Me too. i don't know what it is but that's what I voted for.

[claphamsa]

its a MD thing...yalls wouldnt understand

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Maryland Bridegrooms Fast Facts

Overall Record: 1093-1499 ? worst in AFBL history

Maryland are the only franchise in the AFBL to have never qualified for the playoffs in their history.

Retired 13-year veteran catcher Mike Brown won three Best Defender Awards while with the club; 2013 and 2015 in the Frontier League, and one in 2023 after Maryland had switched to the Patriot League. Brown currently holds several club records including games played (1,695), plate appearances (6,031), and doubles (240) but 34-year old club legend Jose Ortiz is closing in on him and already leads in many other career categories.

Ortiz?s 323 home runs currently ranks 18th all-time in AFBL history, and if he stays healthy he should reach 1,500 career hits this season. 

Maryland has never had a 20-game winning pitcher in their history. 28-year old Tetsuhiko Kichida came closest in 2026 with an 18-10 season, 2.86 ERA and a league leading 5 shutouts (including back-to-back shutouts of Texas and Virginia that September). It looked like the sky was the limit for Kichida, who was the #5 overall pick in the first round of the 2019 first-year player draft. But, in typical Bridegrooms fashion, he became the first 20-game loser in club history the very next season when he went 10-20 with a 5.18 ERA in 2027, and he was an even worse 3-14, 7.13 ERA last year.

Retired starter Kevin Reynolds, who was one of the best pitchers in the early days of the AFBL, leads the club with 92 career wins. 29-year old lefty Jeremy Emery (86 wins) should pass him this year and could become the first 100-game winner in club history with a strong season.

41-year old reliever Artie Gregory leads the club in career saves with 316 which is 8th most in AFBL history. Gregory and fellow 41-year old Lyndon Shortt have been mainstays in the bullpen since the league?s inception in 2013. Shortt has 212 career saves, making Gregory and Shortt one of the most effective duos in league history, especially on such a poor club.

Maryland Bridegrooms Single-Season Batting Leaders
Games: Mike Brown, 161 (2017)
Batting Average: Bob Roberts, .317 (2014)
OBP: Alex McCullagh, .410 (2014)
SLG: Jose Ortiz, .595 (2022)
OPS: Jose Ortiz, .954, (2028)
VORP: Jose Ortiz, 59.5 (2028)
At-Bats: Bob Roberts, 680 (2013)
Runs: Bob Roberts, 102 (2013)
Hits: Bob Roberts, 198 (2013)
Singles: Bob Roberts, 155 (2016)
Doubles: Joe Baldwin, 48 (2025)
Triples: Bob Roberts, 12 (2013)
Home Runs: Jose Ortiz, 49 (2022)
RBI: Jose Ibarra, 106 (2019)
Stolen Bases: Bob Roberts, 64 (2014)
Walks: Alex McCullagh, 112 (2013)
HBP: Ted Higgins, 13 (2026)
Strikeouts: Willie Patton, 190 (2016)

Maryland Bridegrooms Career Batting Leaders
Games: Mike Brown, 1,695
Batting Average: Jeff Cahill, .295
OBP: Jeff Cahill, .377
SLG: Willie Patton, .505
OPS: Willie Patton, .839
VORP: Jose Ortiz, 318.1
At-Bats: Mike Brown, 5,490
Runs: Jose Ortiz, 761
Hits: Jose Ortiz, 1,399
Singles: Jose Ortiz, 836
Doubles: Mike Brown, 240
Triples: Bob Roberts, 41
Home Runs: Jose Ortiz, 323
RBI: Jose Ortiz, 797
Stolen Bases: Bob Roberts, 250
Walks: Scotty Knox, 551
HBP: Scotty Knox, 51
Strikeouts: Jose Ortiz, 1,465

Maryland Bridegrooms Single-Season Pitching Leaders
ERA: Jeremy Emery, 2.80 (2023)
Wins: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 18 (2026)
Losses: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 20 (2027)
Winning PCT: Kevin Reynolds, .652 (2025) & Jeremy Emery, .652 (2023)
Saves: Lyndon Shortt, 44 (2022)
Games Pitched: Ruben Perez, 87 (2021) & Devin Lee, 87 (2018)
Games Started: Kevin Reynolds, 35 (2013)
Complete Games: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 13 (2026)
Shutouts: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 5 (2026)
Innings Pitched: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 258 (2026)
Hits Allowed: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 260 (2027)
HR Allowed: Ernesto Lopez, 46 (2016)
Walks Allowed: Rod Pritchard, 111 (2018)
Strikeouts: Kevin Reynolds, 244 (2016)
K/9: Kevin Reynolds, 10.2 (2014)
K/B: Ernesto Lopez, 7.45 (2014)
WHIP: Jeremy Emery, 1.02 (2023)
VORP: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 69.7 (2026)

Maryland Bridegrooms Career Pitching Leaders
ERA: Jeremy Emery, 3.05
Wins: Kevin Reynolds, 92
Losses: Artie Gregory, 106
Winning PCT: Jeremy Emery, .581
Saves: Artie Gregory, 316
Games Pitched: Lyndon Shortt, 1,044
Games Started: Kevin Reynolds, 237
Complete Games: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 27
Shutouts: Tetsuhiko Kichida, 7
Innings Pitched: Kevin Reynolds, 1,623.1
Hits Allowed: Kevin Reynolds, 1,498
HR Allowed: Lyndon Shortt, 226
Walks Allowed: Rob Knowles, 578
Strikeouts: Lyndon Shortt, 1,605
K/9: Devin Lee, 11.8
K/B: Ernesto Lopez, 5.63
WHIP: Jeremy Emery, 1.12
VORP: Jeremy Emery, 325.3